This is the first English-language publication of an interview with James Baldwin
conducted by the German writer, editor, and journalist Fritz J. Raddatz in 1978
at Baldwin’s house in St. Paul-de-Vence. In the same year, it was
published in German in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, as well
as in a book of Raddatz’s conversations with international writers,
and—in Italian translation—in the newspaper La
Repubblica. The interview covers various topics characteristic of
Baldwin’s interests at the time—among them his thoughts about
Jimmy Carter’s presidency, his reasons for planning to return to the
United States, his disillusionment after the series of murders of black civil
rights activists in the 1960s and 1970s, and the role of love and sexuality in
his literary writings. A special emphasis lies on the discussion of possible
parallels between Nazi Germany and U.S. racism, with Baldwin most prominently
likening the whole city of New York to a concentration camp. Due to copyright
reasons, this reprint is based on an English translation of the edited version
published in German. A one-hour tape recording of the original English
conversation between Raddatz and Baldwin is accessible at the German literary
archive in Marbach.

fascinating decade for the film archivist.
Technically speaking there was a lot going on: the end of the nitrate
era, the development of wide-screen and novelty formats, the increasing
use of colour, advances in sound recording technology, lighter more
portable 16mm camera equipment, the coming of television. I am
concentrating on the holdings of the British Film Institute’s
National Film and TV Archive

customary and the everyday. At least in the English-language traditions of ethnography, ‘participant-observation’ involves learning the language of the subjects, so that it is possible not only to speak with them directly, but also to listen to third-party conversations. It involves not just the recording of what is laid out in official documents and formally codified sets of rules – if there are any – nor merely attending to what the subjects say, but also paying close attention to non-linguistic codes, to the ‘things that go without saying’, that is, to the non

the quality of the sound recording. Although the underlying methodology may have been highly participatory, the films themselves are only minimally reflexive: outside the context of interviews, there are only occasional references to the presence of the film-makers. In fact, even the interviews are more like oral testimonies than interviews in the sense that only on one occasion does one hear a question, and even that is posed by a local person rather than by the film-makers.
In her account of making these films, Sarah Elder acknowledges that the

The violence visited upon British Malaya during the Japanese Occupation of December 1941 to August 1945 has prompted several historians to evoke comparisons with the atrocities that befell Nanjing. For the duration of three years and eight months, unknown numbers of civilians were subjected to massacres, summary executions, rape, forced labour, arbitrary detention and torture.This chapter explores several exhumations which have taken place in the territory to interrogate the significance of exhumations in shaping communal collective war memory, a subject which has thus far eluded scholarly study. It argues that these exhumations have not been exercises in recording or recovering historical facts; rather they have obfuscated the past by augmenting popular perceptions of Chinese victimhood and resistance, to the exclusion of all other ethnic groups’ war experiences. As a result, exhumations of mass graves in Malaysia have thus far served as poor examples of forensic investigation; rather these operations highlight how exhumations can emerge as battlegrounds in the contest between war memory and historiography.

lost bodily expression
and vocal nuance. This is why some researchers work between an audio/visual
recording and a transcript. Listening to or watching an interview or research
interaction can enrich analysis, helping us to notice extra-linguistic data
– when someone is being sarcastic or feels uncomfortable. This type of
work is also more time-consuming, so needs to be addressed in the planning
stages of a study. Dissemination is another

Chapter 8:
Introduction to
Qualitative Data Analysis
Helen Brooks, Penny Bee and Anne Rogers
Chapter overview
Qualitative data includes a range of textual (e.g. transcripts of interviews and
focus groups) and visual (photographic and video) data. During qualitative
analysis researchers make sense of this data gathered from research.
Analysing the data by looking for common themes (known as thematic
analysis) is one of the most common ways in which to do this and involves
examining and recording patterns within the data relating to a specific
research question

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Ethnographic film-making in the European colonial empires: German, French, British
Among European nations maintaining global colonial empires in the early years of the twentieth century, one of the most active producers of films of ethnographic interest was Germany. In the very first years of the twentieth century, anthropologists in Germany were enthusiastic early adopters of the phonograph for recording music and language in the field and it has even been suggested that their interest in moving image cameras was initially to make films that could

paper, ­analysing the smell experience by recording individual data points such as the ‘smell name/
description’. Ten seconds later another smell
walker may come along, sniff the identical bin
and detect something completely different. There
have been times when two people smelling inside
the same bin at an identical moment in time will
identify completely different smells, or nothing at
all. During this particular walk in September 2014
two individuals simultaneously sniffed another bin;
one noted no identifiable or perceptible odour,
and the other picked out a minty